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Ohio has a peculiar system for choosing state judges, including members of the State Supreme Court. They are nominated in partisan primaries. Then they run in the general election but no party labels are on the November ballot. The August 14 issue of the Toledo Blade has this editorial, saying if the state continues to nominate judicial candidates in partisan primaries, then party labels should be on the general election ballot.

However, the editorial also advocates that Ohio stop electing judges. As the editorial notes, the Democratic Party and others have a pending federal lawsuit, arguing that because Ohio prints partisan labels on the November ballot for other partisan office, the state cannot withhold partisan labels for judicial nominees in the general election.

(Besides, Swarzenegger needs more good free bad publicity…and double-overtime pay in legal fees for his lawyer friends is like a cherry on top. Between you, Newsom and him, you can rotate roles every few years!)

…oh and partisan elections are superior to nonpartisan elections because one word(s) of free speech beside each name is more helpful to the voter than no word(s) of free speech. No word(s) of free speech is pretty much BOOOoooring.